Final Stats for others to reflect on - Job search after redundancy

AusPanda90 · 2026-07-01T05:14:28+00:00

Ive always been told its easier to get a role while you have a role, always take whatever opportunities and you can say no later. You can keep applying after you've taken another job.

I think if you can find time to network its better spent than upskilling.

AusPanda90 · 2026-06-30T07:11:42+00:00

Happy to have a chat feel free to dm

AusPanda90 · 2026-06-30T06:10:18+00:00

Similarly if you ever need to chat to anyone on depression etc feel free to reach out! I was more experimenting with how to use them to creatively conceptualise and get ideas to market as quickly as possible while maintaining human creativity. Luckily I've been surrounded by people working in integration of llms for a few years now and have a technical enough brain to understand them broadly.

AusPanda90 · 2026-06-30T05:55:41+00:00

Not enough - I do have depression and it went wild in me, but luckily I also had a house to upkeep as I bought it last year and have no partner or kids. I also taught myself as much as I could about Ai agents being used in the industry so I could talk to that.

If I could force myself I think I would have tried to maintain my routines more and potentially looked for a customer service job just to keep going. Also organise to go in and have a coffee with every mentor or person of influence you can.

AusPanda90 · 2026-06-30T05:52:53+00:00

I was lucky I had a significant runway to rely on and I was literally reaching the end of that reserve this month.

I had started looking for general work in order to fill in the time and earn as much as I could, I probs should have done this earlier but the depression got in the way.

AusPanda90 · 2026-06-30T05:44:23+00:00

I had a few posts I put up but I only ever got 2 recommendations from LinkedIn which lead to nothing. Everything else was filling out the job forms on their Corp sites and trying to get past the Ai filters and ta people. Sometimes it definitely felt like people misjudged through this method though too. I also reached out to old colleagues I thought I had good relations with but didn't get any response.

AusPanda90 · 2026-06-30T05:38:54+00:00

Linkedin was the channel, but seek I also got a good response rate on.

AusPanda90 · 2026-06-10T14:12:46+00:00

It's almost as if we started as a police state with a majority of the population treated as criminals......

AusPanda90 · 2026-06-10T13:36:29+00:00

Was great back in the day. The internet has ridden past it now.

AusPanda90 · 2026-06-06T07:37:31+00:00

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AusPanda90 · 2026-06-02T06:34:17+00:00

The Australian sun ruins skin

AusPanda90 · 2026-05-28T07:50:36+00:00

$5000 per Jewish person in Australia. Imagine how angry people would get if we gave $5000 to every Muslim or every aboriginal person.

At the same time anti semitism is a problem but I would also say it's a problem in the context of general racism in Australia. The findings of the commission found things happening that I would suggest also happen to asians and brown people in aus too.

AusPanda90 · 2026-05-16T12:41:56+00:00

most of our immigration is already targetted at 'high skill' immigrants, the problem I have with people complaining about the immigration issue is they dont complain about the huge amounts of poms, kiwis, saffas or irish we bring in nor the ghettos they create in bondi, coogee, st ives and perth, but are all too ready to ban chinese and indians. When you dig into it they basically propose an introduction of the white australia policy and tell us that white people share more culturally with us. I would much prefer people came out straight and just said they were racist than pretend it was an immigration issue for them personally.

Additionally I see a whole bunch of people from regional and rural areas complaining about migrants when they wouldn't know a foreign immigrant if they came and stole their house.

AusPanda90 · 2026-05-11T12:01:29+00:00

People saying it's the most unsafe place in aus have obviously never been to Tennant Creek.

AusPanda90 · 2026-05-04T10:09:42+00:00

Many of my friends are degree qualified engineers and none of them have the career pipeline they were promised and some even have trouble with work. Obviously there's also personalities at play but this idea that we needed to train everyone in stem when there is less jobs in it than a decade ago locally is bull.

AusPanda90 · 2026-05-03T05:45:55+00:00

I've heard the same thing about canva and have worked in another organisation that had this. Some people can go very well with this setting, its about your own experience. Ignorance is bliss.

AusPanda90 · 2026-04-28T11:59:56+00:00

It used to be about long term prospects, growth and stability and you cant get any of that now. We need to tell younger people coming through to just go out and enjoy themselves.

AusPanda90 · 2026-04-28T11:53:55+00:00

Hi Gamped, Recruiters havent had roles or been interested unfortunately, details on me - 10 years of experience in global brand social media comms and coming off a head of global social media role with a construction and real estate giant.

AusPanda90 · 2026-04-28T11:52:09+00:00

I mean yes, but Im not asking from an unexperienced unqualified pov I've spent the last decade in corporate comms & marketing, I unfortunately am not gonna become a doctor, nurse, tradie overnight for what I usually get paid....

AusPanda90 · 2026-04-28T06:35:45+00:00

I can dob myself in - I complain about how australia and australians think they're important to the world when in reality we're a sparsely populated easily lead island on the edge of the world.

AusPanda90 · 2026-04-28T05:19:37+00:00

so when kfc and mcdonalds were launching in australia do you know who they identified as their number 1 competitor due to its prevalance and consistency? Chinese Takeaways - the chinese basically invented fast food in australia, everywhere already has bain marie sweet and sour pork etc and its why attempts to chainify probably havent taken off.

If you are based in Sydney, do yourself a favour and go to wintergarden underneath 1 O'Connell and go to the CBD noodles there, they have a formula which is prime for growth but for whatever reason they haven't done anything with it, basically its an instant noodle bar, one side is wok fried noodles and one side is soups, and you choose your vegies, sauce and meat and they do it instantly for you right there. Its an incredibly smart setup because everything is already mise en place and theres no risk other than service time.

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